Vapor cell geometry effect on Rydberg atom-based microwave electric field measurement

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The geometry effect of a vapor cell on the metrology of a microwave electric field is investigated. Based on the splitting of the electromagnetically induced transparency spectra of cesium Rydberg atoms in a vapor cell, high-resolution spatial distribution of the microwave electric field strength is achieved for both a cubic cell and a cylinder cell. The spatial distribution of the microwave field strength in two dimensions is measured with sub-wavelength resolution. The experimental results show that the shape of a vapor cell has a significant influence on the abnormal spatial distribution because of the Fabry-Pérot effect inside a vapor cell. A theoretical simulation is obtained for different vapor cell wall thicknesses and shows that a restricted wall thickness results in a measurement fluctuation smaller than 3% at the center of the vapor cell.

Key words： Rydberg atom microwave electric field strength electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) Aulter-Towns splitting

Received: 17 November 2017

PACS:	32.80.Ee	(Rydberg states)
	42.50.Gy	(Effects of atomic coherence on propagation, absorption, and Amplification of light; electromagnetically induced transparency and Absorption)
	84.40.-x	(Radiowave and microwave (including millimeter wave) technology)

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Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant Nos. 2017YFA03044200 and 2016YFF0200104), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 91536110, 61505099, and 61378013), and the Fund for Shanxi "331 Project" Key Subjects Construction, China.

Corresponding Authors: Linjie Zhang

E-mail: zlj@sxu.edu.cn

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Linjie Zhang,Jiasheng Liu,Yue Jia et al . Vapor cell geometry effect on Rydberg atom-based microwave electric field measurement[J]. Chin. Phys. B, 2018, 27(3):033201.

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